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- MECHANICAL TOY. No. 258,335.

' UNITED STATES PATENT I OFFICE.

TURNEY M. SVILKINS, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

MECHANICAL TOY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 258,335, dated May 23, 1882.

7 Application filed April 17, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TURNEY M. WrLKINs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, in the county of Washington and District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mechanical Toys; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact desciption of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of myinvention is to produce an amusing and instructive toy; and it consists in a small car to be drawn around by means of a string, or to be operated locally, for the purpose of exhibiting upon a revolving platform of said car small toy figures representing circus performers, the animals of a menagerie, the military and civic costumes and parades of all nations, and other matters interesting and instructive to youth.

The devices by means of which I accomplish these ends are more fully described hereinafter, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal side elevation of my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of the performing car, and Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section of the supportingjack and car-axle.

supplied with flags, both for ornamental pur-,

poses and to indicate the nationality of its contents, thus affording means of instruction, as the various wagons contain circus performers, the various animals shown in a meuagerie, representations of the various people of the world, with their costumes and customs, civic and military.

The platform A of the performing car is provided with gear-teeth beneath its circumference, meshing into a beveled-gear wheel,B,

which is one of the supporting-wheels of the vehicle, by which means the platform is caused to revolve on its axis a when the wheel B re porting-jack, 0, upon which the axleD of the performing car will be supported when it is desired to make a local exhibition, in order that said operating-wheel may turn free from contact with the ground. This car is also provided with a forward caster-wheel, F, pivoted vertioallyiu the body of afigure representing some animal, as the elephant, shown for the purpose of allowing the car to follow a leading-line, like that attached to the trunk of the elephant, when drawn about to represent a street-parade.

In the vertical axis a of the car the staff of a canopy is fixed, and in the top of this staff is a small hole to receive a flag, streamer, or other decoration.

Following the platform-car may be any numberof wagons to contain the different performers to be shown on the platform, said wagons having any ornamentalform desired.

A number of my revolving-table cars may be attached together in one train, if desired, to

make a more extensive show, each operating by its own independent mechanism. Beneath this revolving table or platform small bells may be attached to strike fixed hammers. on the car-axle, or the reverse order, to add to the childs amusement.

Having fully described my invention to enable others skilled in the art to make and operate the same, what I wish to secure by Letters Patent is the following:

1. In a mechanical toy, the combination of the horizontal platform A, provided with holes i, carrying toy figures, the axle D, the drivewheel B, having a beveled gear on its edge meshing into a beveled gear on the edge of the platform A, and the vertical axis a, fixed to the axle D, asdescribed.

2. In a mechanical toy, the combination of the circular platform A, carrying toy figures, the beveled-gear wheel B, the fixed. vertical ryingtoy figures, the axle D, the drive-wheel B, provided with a hand-crank, E, and the supporting-jack O, as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

TURNEY M. WILKINS.

\Vitnesses C. S. BUNDY, H. R. MARYMAN. 

